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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • “Good” is just a word defined by those who use it, like all words. Christians can say that only God is good, and I can disagree with them.

    I don’t think anyone should be tortured for eternity, no matter what they do. Punishment is only useful to society to dissuade people from breaking social contracts. No one gains anything by causing unnecessary pain, no matter how much we may think someone “deserves” it. If there is no way for us to hurt anyone in the afterlife, there is no need for punishment. Therefore, if God were to punish someone anyway, it would be out of cruelty rather than love or goodness.

    If God’s judgement were fair and our understanding was flawed, then it is God’s obligation to explain in simple terms why it is flawed. Until this happens, I am unable to believe that God is anything other than fictional or cruel.